Commenting on the development, the former prime minister also said he had suggested Mallikarjun Kharge's name for the post of the chief minister.
In the elections, the BJP has won 25 of the 28 parliamentary seats in the state, the Janata Dal-Secular and the Congress one seat each and Independent Sumalatha Ambareesh, who was backed by the BJP, secured one seat.
"As my grandfather is the founder and builder of the JD-S, I want to resign and get him re-elected from the Hassan seat through a bye-election," a pensive Prajwal told reporters at Hassan, about 180km from Bengaluru.
"You can go through the records to see what happened in Deve Gowda's ten-month government and five years under the leadership of PM Modi." Kumaraswamy said.
The former prime minister heaped praise for the Gandhi family and spoke about the JD(S) coalition with Congress.
Speaking to reporters after casting his vote in Hassan, Gowda said his opponents accused him of indulging in family politics but his rise in politics was possible because of God and voters, whom his family served to the best of its ability.
The opposition parties will work together to "save" Indian democracy, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo said.
“It is not necessary that the parties—which attended the swearing-in ceremony of Kumaraswamy as Karnataka CM—will fight together in all states,” Gowda told media persons.
The BJP might look into the option of getting MLAs from the rival camp to shift their loyalty or absent themselves, while it proves majority on the floor. This would bring down the mark required for a simple majority.
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